I let Claude audit my messy Home Assistant setup, and it was a massive wake-up call

I gave Claude access to my Home Assistant. It helped me audit, debug, and improve my smart home better than I ever could have ...
The Free Press Journal

Google Search Hit By Global Outage As Users Report '500 Internal Server Error'

New Delhi: US-based tech giant Alphabet Inc's Google Search experienced a global outage on Tuesday morning, with users in India, the US and several other regions reporting difficulties accessing the ...
Toronto Star

For days, a Toronto street had near-misses and wrong-way traffic. How a Google Maps error led to the War on Winona

It has never been easy to get out of this Cedarvale subdivision, a maze of one-way streets just southwest of Eglinton Avenue and Bathurst Street. Gerald Beeston, who has lived in the neighbourhood for ...
UPI

S. Korea conditionally approves Google's overseas transfer of high-precision map data

The government on Friday decided to allow global tech giant Google to transfer government-supplied high-precision map data of South Korea to its overseas facilities, contingent on supplementary ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Google Wins Conditional Nod From Seoul Over Map Data Request

Google won conditional approval from South Korea to offer high-precision maps in the country after a nearly two-decade battle, securing a major concession in a sign that Seoul is ready to temper ...
Bleeping Computer

Previously harmless Google API keys now expose Gemini AI data

Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI assistant and access private data. Researchers found nearly 3,000 such ...
AOL

This community is hidden from Google Maps — here’s why its ultra-wealthy residents have been kept secret for two decades

Content creator Chris Parr put the exclusive community of North Oaks on Google Maps for the first time. He put them on the map. An ultra-rich Minnesota enclave named North Oaks is so secretive and ...
TechCrunch

Google launched its deepest AI research agent yet — on the same day OpenAI dropped GPT-5.2

Google released on Thursday a “reimagined” version of its research agent Gemini Deep Research based on its much-ballyhooed state-of-the-art foundation model, Gemini 3 Pro. This new agent isn’t just ...
GitHub

[Bug] Internal script error when Google Maps API is loaded from user cache

This is an interesting error. We get about 400 instances daily with a high traffic site- considered pretty low frequency. Error: Google Maps JavaScript API error ...
Lifehacker

Google Maps' New Power Saving Mode Only Works on One Type of Phone, and That Stinks

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...
MSPoweruser

How to Fix Google Maps API Error: ApiNotActivatedMapError

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